'I'm just taking it day by day': Mob Wives star Big Ang debuts very short hairdo as she starts chemotherapy again after cancer returns

Mob Wives star Big Ang has started another round of chemotherapy after her cancer returned.

The star of the VH1 hit show cut her hair short after doctors told her the throat cancer she was diagnosed with last March has spread to other parts of the body.

'I'm just taking it day by day,' she told SILive.com at a party to celebrate the start of the sixth and final season of Mob Wives: The Last Stand.

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Fighting spirit: Mob Wives star Big Ang is vowing to beat cancer a second time as she begins another round of chemotherapy after she's told her throat cancer has returned and spread to other parts of her body

Big Ang - Angela Raiola - put on a brave face as she attended the premiere party at the Funky Monkey Bar in Staten Island and smiled as she waved and blew kisses at photographers.

In a New Year's message she posted on Instagram, she vowed to keep going strong 'with as positive an outlook as I can have.'

Although the reality show sees her celebrating her remission, NY Daily News'Confidential reports Thursday she was told the cancer had returned shortly after filming ended and started treatment last week.

Shorn: Big Ang - Angela Raiola - debuted her newly cropped dyed blonde hair on Wednesday night at a party to celebrate the start of the sixth and final season of her hit VH1 show. She's pictured right in May 2015

Upbeat: The 55-year-old reality star put on a brave face at the event held at the Funky Monkey Bar in Staten Island

Treatment detailed: Big Ang's battle with cancer is shown in the new season of Mob Wives: The Last Stand. She had a lemon-sized tumor removed from her neck last March along with her lymph nodes

'Although the topic is depressing, the way that we covered it, a lot of people who have been through this will identify with it,' show creator Jennifer Graziano told the Staten Island website.

'She wanted to do whatever she could do to shed light on it and get people to understand it better. There's nothing fake about it. Those are real emotions.'

The 55-year-old had a lemon-sized cancerous tumor removed from her neck last Spring.

Doctors also removed her lymph nodes in a grueling eight-hour procedure.

'How do you like my new look?' The 55-year-old shared this photo on her Instagram two weeks ago telling fans she was 'getting used' to her new hairdo

The niece of mobster Salvatore Lombardi had been a smoker for 42 years and her younger sister Janine Detore also revealed that doctors told her to quit the habit immediately.

'All I can say is that prayers are with her,' cast member and friend Renee Graziano told Confidential.

'I hope for nothing but happiness and health and we pray that she recovers and that she's back to just being Big Ang and enjoying her life.' she added.

Although she has appeared in two short-lived spinoffs - Big Ang and Miami Monkey - Ang is best known for her starring turn on VH1's Mob Wives since 2012.

The reality star is married to sanitation worker Neil Murphy and has two children.

Living life on camera: Big Ang is the niece of mobster Salvatore Lombardi and is married to sanitation worker Neil Murphy, pictured with her on an episode of Mob Wives: The Last Stand. The couple have two children

Pop culture figure: Angela Raiola found fame on VH1's Mob Wives starting in 2012. She's also appeared in two spin-offs: Big Ang and Miami Monkey